Life at the Kilbirnie Post Shop, two days on

After the local post office was done over two days ago, by two men, both armed (yes, the MSM got it wrong by saying three men, one armed) there are now some changes.
   A security guard is now posted at the door and the entrance to the postbox lobby is now permanently locked, with a display stand in the way.
   But statistically, lightning does not strike twice at the same place.
   I hate to use this example but a nutter wanting to repeat “a 9-11” would find it awfully hard to have done so on September 12, 2001. It is why, rightly, security forces have been on alert with other modes of transport. The use of an airplane the day after for such a purpose would have been very, very unlikely.
   I can understand the security guard, not so much because the Kilbirnie Post Shop, which has never been robbed at gunpoint since the current building was erected in the 1980s, is still a target, but staff may now feel uneasy. If it gives them comfort, then the gentleman standing guard outside is doing something good.
   The custom with the outside postbox lobby door has, lately, been to lock it. In fact, the lock does crazy things. Sometimes it locks during office hours and opens outside them. But as long as legitimate users have the code, then permanently locking the outside door but allowing internal access is not a big deal.
   All I know is that two men changed the way the post office operates. It’s a very small example of how fear can alter behaviours.
   And, really, I don’t think we should change those behaviours. Those bastards are not coming back, no one was injured, and the psychological scars are probably—though I am no expert—going to amount to a few days’ or weeks’ insomnia. The crooks probably discovered that the post office is not a very good target, with the judder bars around, and only two conceivable exits for motor cars. Kilbirnie residents are on alert anyway for suspicious behaviour: a known unknown, in the words of former Sec. Rumsfeld.
   But if I were at any other bank in any other area, then I would be worried, because the chances of those being hit have risen.